From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:58:48 +0000, Your Name Here=Harvey wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   > david@edenroad.demon.co.uk says...   
      
      
   > You go ahead and take your own photos by whatever method you outline or   
   > think they were taken as --- and you'll soon see that your results are   
   > nothing like that of Billy Meiers'.   
      
   On the other hand, he's had twenty years to practice.   
      
      
   > There's the story of how the professional skeptics organisation, that is   
   > in LA, that is tied with the amazing Randi - was shown the Meier   
   > photographs, and asked whether anyone there could reproduce such   
   > photographs? Sure, it was said, come back in 2 weeks - I have an 8mm   
   > movie camera and a 35mm camera, it should be no problem taking some   
   > photos just like these ones.   
   > 2 weeks later - no results were available. OK, another 2 weeks was   
   > given, just so they won't be so rushed in taking their photos. This went   
   > on for a while, in which these professional skeptics failed to produce   
   > anything, that could debunk the original Meier photos.   
      
   Google "Billy Meier" +hoax   
      
   Among the first of the zillionz of pages which appear, there is a link to   
   a site which contains just that.  Some rather nice composite images of a   
   little ufo.  It's even a better model than Meier uses.   
      
   > His camera was broken, such that the focus was always at 'infinity' - he   
   > couldn't focus his camera at all. I think his aperature or shutter speed   
   > was similarly 'locked' or 'broken' too. Such that he couldn't shut down   
   > his aperature to it's minimum and set it for maximum depth of field --   
   > because, again the foreground objects are out of focus.   
      
   "His camera was broken".   
      
   Isn't that the most pathetic excuse you've ever heard. So, in twenty   
   years, he never bought a new camera, nor had it repaired, despite its   
   massive importance to his life.   
      
      
   > Meier is not noted to be an expert at photography or to be knowledgable   
   > about trick photography.   
      
   But he did have 20 years to, perhaps, read one book about it. Don't you   
   think?   
      
   > There are of course, ways of doing trick photography - but you can't do   
   > so, with a camera that it's focus is fixed at infinity, and you can't   
   > change the aperature or shutter speed at will.   
      
   And, of course, you _believed_ this excuse?   
      
   > And try photographing 3 objects in the sky?   
      
   Quick, break out the other models, and the spare fishing line.   
      
      
   > Of course, anything these days can be faked - in this day and age. But   
   > you couldn't do that, at the time these photographs were taken -   
   > 1975-1985. Similarly with the sound recording - that it was witnessed -   
   > being an open air recording when many people present, who say the   
   > recording being done.   
      
   Who saw _a_ recording being done.  Or played. Don't be so f*cking   
   gullible.   
      
   > If only to show that the bad press/media about Billy Meier is not   
   > correct.   
      
   But it is!   
   "After computer enhancement and careful scrutiny, it has been shown the   
   Beamship is really a miniature model made out of an upside-down cake pan,   
   disconnected copper hose fitting, a bracelet, carpet tacks and various   
   other identifiable objects."   
      
   "The Meier photograph of the beautiful Pleiadian alien, Semjase, turned   
   out to be a photocopy of a model from a Sears Catalog. Another one of   
   Meier's photographs, where he allegedly traveled into the future aboard a   
   Pleiadian Beamship to photograph the aftermath of a 9.0 earthquake in San   
   Francisco showing the toppled Trans-America building, turned out to be a   
   realistic looking painting from a geology magazine article about   
   earthquakes."   
      
   "it has been shown that the reflections on some of the Pleiadian ships are   
   not consistent with the position of the sun, indicating possible   
   superimposition techniques. To top it off, a reporter found a bunch of   
   miniature models exactly matching many of the Pleiadian ships shown in his   
   photos. His ex-wife has come out to denounce him as a fraud as well."   
      
   Now, are you saying that the above are all untrue?   
      
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